Frederike Lausch is an architectural historian, Visiting Lecturer for the Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich and co-founder of the Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA). Her research focuses on architecture as discourse and discipline by investigating media strategies of architects, their political positionings and professional conflicts over expertise and authority in international settings. Her dissertation (completed 2019, awarded 2020) explored the reception of French Theory in the 1990s architectural discourse of the Anyone Corporation (transcript 2021). Currently, she is researching architecture in development contexts through the Communication Centre of Scientific Knowledge for Self-Reliance (ABE 21/2023), the Darmstadt Institute for Tropical Building and Planning (digital exhibition 2024) and the UNESCO Division for Human Settlements and the Socio-Cultural Environment. She has received grants and fellowships from the Wüstenrot Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Max Weber Foundation and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Dr. Frederike Lausch
